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Bad News, Good News: Coverage and Response Asymmetries
(Working paper;8/2022, Working paper, 2022)We study the dynamic link between economic news coverage and the macroeconomy. We construct two measures of media coverage of bad and good unemployment figures based on three major US newspapers. Using nonlinear time series ... -
Bagehot for Beginners: The Making of Lending of Last Resort Operations in the Mid-19th Century
(Working Papers;22/2009, Working paper, 2009)In this paper we survey the development of lending of last resort operations in the mid-19th century. We identify and document critical dimensions of the extension of lending of last resort functions, and also develop ... -
Bank Regulation and Bank Crisis
(Working Papers;18/2009, Working paper, 2009)The Norwegian experiences of the past thirty years illustrate what we believe are two general tendencies in bank regulation. The first one is that a bank crisis will tend to focus regulators' minds and lead to stricter ... -
Banking Competition, Monitoring Incentives and Financial Stability
(Working Papers;16/2010, Working paper, 2010)This paper addresses the desirability of competition in banking industry. In a model where banks compete on both deposit and loan markets and where banks can use monitoring technology to control entrepreneurs' behavior, ... -
A bankruptcy probability model for assessing credit risk on corporate loans with automated variable selection
(Working paper;7/2022, Working paper, 2022)We propose an econometric model for predicting the share of bank debt held by bankrupt firms by combining a novel set of firm-level financial variables and macroeconomic indicators. Our firm-level data include payment ... -
Banks as Multioutput Oligopolies: An Empirical Evaluation of the Retail and Corporate Banking Markets
(Working Papers;10/1994, Working paper, 1994)The distinction between retail and corporate banking markets is of much importance in real life banking organizations. The two markets differ with respect to concentration, the importance of informational asymmetries, and ... -
Banks’ Buffer Capital: How Important Is Risk?
(Working Papers;11/2003, Working paper, 2003)Most banks hold a capital to asset ratio well above the required minimum defined by the present capital adequacy regulation (Basel I). Using bank-level panel data from Norway, important hypotheses concerning the determination ... -
Banks’ Optimal Implementation Strategies for a Risk Sensitive Regulatory Capital Rule: A Real Options and Signalling Approach
(Working Papers;12/2006, Working paper, 2006)I evaluate a bank's incentives to implement a risk sensitive regulatory capital rule and to invest in improved risk measurement. The decision making is analyzed within a real options framework where optimal policies are ... -
Bayesian Analysis of Boundary and Near-Boundary Evidence in Econometric Models with Reduced Rank
(Working Papers;11/2017, Working paper, 2017)Weak empirical evidence near and at the boundary of the parameter region is a predominant feature in econometric models. Examples are macroeconometric models with weak information on the number of stable relations, ... -
Bayesian Nonparametric Calibration and Combination of Predictive Distributions
(Working Papers;3/2015, Working paper, 2015)We introduce a Bayesian approach to predictive density calibration and combination that accounts for parameter uncertainty and model set incompleteness through the use of random calibration functionals and random combination ... -
Betalingssystemet – en kilde til risiko. Behovet for overvåking og tilsyn
(Journal article, 2007)Betalingssystemet er en viktig del av et lands finansielle infrastruktur. Velfungerende betalingssystemer gjør det mulig å gjennomføre pengeoverføringer på en sikker måte og til avtalt tid. Artikkelen beskriver Norges Banks ... -
The Bias and Efficiency of the ECB Inflation Projections: a State Dependent Analysis
(Working Paper;1/2021, Working paper, 2021)We test for bias and efficiency of the ECB inflation forecasts using a confidential dataset of ECB macroeconomic quarterly projections. We investigate whether the properties of the forecasts depend on the level of inflation, ... -
Bonds, currencies and expectational errors
(Working Paper;3/2020, Working paper, 2020)We propose a model in which sticky expectations concerning shortterm interest rates generate joint predictability patterns in bond and currency markets. Using our calibrated model, we quantify the effect of this channel ... -
Boom or Gloom? Examining the Dutch Disease in Two-Speed Economies
(Working Papers;12/2014, Working paper, 2014)Traditional studies of the Dutch disease do not account for productivity spillovers between the booming resource sector and other domestic sectors. We put forward a simple theory model that allows for such spillovers. We ... -
Bootstrapping the Likelihood Ratio Cointegration Test in Error Correction Models with Unknown Lag Order
(Working Papers;12/2009, Working paper, 2009)We investigate the small-sample size and power properties of bootstrapped likelihood ratio systems cointegration tests via Monte Carlo simulations when the true lag order of the data generating process is unknown. A recursive ... -
Bubbles and Crises: The Role of House Prices and Credit
(Working Papers;14/2014, Working paper, 2014)This paper exploits a quarterly panel data set for 16 OECD countries over the period 1975q1–2013q2 to explore the importance of house prices and credit in affecting the likelihood of a financial crisis. Estimating a set ... -
Burying Libor
(Working Paper;13/2019, Working paper, 2019)We argue that the planned transition toward alternative benchmark rates gives reason to mourn Libor. Guided by a model in which banks and non-banks can lend to each other, subject to realistic regulatory constraints, we ... -
Business Cycle Analysis and VARMA Models
(Working Papers;5/2008, Working paper, 2008)Can long-run identified structural vector autoregressions (SVARs) discriminate between competing models in practice? Several authors have suggested SVARs fail partly because they are finite-order approximations to ... -
Business cycle narratives
(Working papers;3/2018, Working paper, 2018)This article quantifies the epidemiology of media narratives relevant to business cycles in the US, Japan, and Europe (euro area). We do so by first constructing daily business cycle indexes computed on the basis of the ... -
Business Cycles in an Oil Economy: Lessons from Norway
(Working Papers;16/2016, Working paper, 2016)The recent oil price fall has created concern among policy makers regarding the consequences of terms of trade shocks for resource-rich countries. This concern is not a minor one – the world's commodity exporters combined ...